Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.