I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. ….

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints..

Society has no bribe for me..

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the b….

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown..

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy..

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?.

There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable..

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none..

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity..

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities..

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming….

Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion….

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature..

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitt….

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies..

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam..

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of ….

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen..

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all co….

The pest of society is egotists..