Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself drive….

The greatest man in history was the poorest..

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places..

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge..

Ability without honor has no value..

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer..

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new a….

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous..

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throug….

There is properly no history, only biography..

Be brave enough to do the loving thing..

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive ….

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.".

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge..

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and th….

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discours….

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skil….

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man..

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace..

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlie….