Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.