Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.