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

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.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.