There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

A man lives by believing something.

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.