No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.