"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.