It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
He that can work is a born king of something.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and ca...
We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.
History a distillation of rumor
All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them...
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.