Debt is a bottomless sea.
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
My books are friends that never fai
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and cal...
The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century...
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Every noble work is at first impossible.