The king is the man who can.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

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