The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects….

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor ….

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us..

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought..

The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, ….

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us..

The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desi….

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run..

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as t….

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned..

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction..

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and….

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change..

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong.".

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings..

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels….

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart..

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every….

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty..

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it..

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is....