The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Speech is silvern silence is golden.
Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
The end of man is action.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is...
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Man is a tool-using animal.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.