Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Men’s hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!