The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.
Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even i...
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.
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.
The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.