And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

There are remedies for all things but death.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

In a certain sense all men are historians.