The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.