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.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
My books are friends that never fai
(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...
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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...
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.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.