In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.