Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.