The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.
If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing ne...
Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.