In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.