Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.