Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

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.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.