Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.