Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

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

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.