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

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.