One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.