The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

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

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.