“Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.”
“No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.”
“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
“The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.”
“If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.”
“The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.”
“Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.”
“Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.”
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
“The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.”
“The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.”
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.”
“One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.”
“Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.”
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
“Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.”
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
“The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.”
“Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.”
“The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
“For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.”
“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”
“The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.”
“In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.”
“The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.”