The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Thought will not work except in silence.