The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

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

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

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.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.