The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.