God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon….

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a p….

When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetrati….

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, th….

We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals asto….

At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we….

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of o….

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books..

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror..

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke..

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man..

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sag….

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least..

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on ….

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them..

As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's sou….

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about tha….

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free..

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love..