The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.