There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.