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

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

History is the new poetry.

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

Laughter means sympathy.