Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce, – he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
Time has only a relative existence.
Blessed be the God’s voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.
Goethe’s devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
Leaders: Captains of industry.
There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
The genuine essence of truth never dies.
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.