Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.