The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.