No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.