Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. |
Endurance is patience concentrated. |
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. |
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. |
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. |
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? |
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. |
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. |
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. |
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. |
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. |
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. |
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. |
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. |
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. |
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. |
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. |
Necessity dispenseth with decorum. |
History, a distillation of rumour. |
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. |