The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

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

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.