Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.
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.
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...
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
Biography is the only true history.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.
Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.
The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.