Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Thought will not work except in silence.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.