Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

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

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.