If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

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.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.