Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart – all else is wind in comparison.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
A man lives by believing something.