Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
History is philosophy teaching by experience.
Man’s earthly interests,’are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
It is well said, in every sense, that a man’s religion is the chief fact with regard to him.
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command – Exit Christ.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.