The spiritual is the parent of the practical. |
Every noble work is at first impossible. |
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. |
Wonder is the basis of worship. |
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. |
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. |
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. |
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. |
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. |
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. Topics: Age |
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. |
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. |
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. |
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. |
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. |
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. |
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. |
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. |
In books lies the soul of the whole past time. |
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. |