Wonder is the basis of worship.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
History, a distillation of rumour.
Work alone is noble.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beas...
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
Endurance is patience concentrated.