But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.