The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.