Silence is the eternal duty of man.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.