Every noble work is at first impossible.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

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

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.