Books are for nothing but to inspire
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence...
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
When there is no vision people perish.
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.