Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into t...
History a distillation of rumor
Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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.
All great peoples are conservative.
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.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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...
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...
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.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.