To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic’s can but babble on the surface.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
He that can work is born to be king of something.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.