I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.