 Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. |
| The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. |
| The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. |
| The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. |
| The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. |
| Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. |
| Happy the people whose annals are vacant. |
| Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. |
| Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. |
| Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. |
| Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. |
| The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. |
| Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. |
| Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. |
| What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. |
| I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. |
| A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. |
| Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. |
| Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. |
| He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. |
