The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.