Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

The king is the man who can.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.