Great geniuses have the shortest biographies..

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any….

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate..

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character..

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and ….

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all..

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force..

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps ….

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain..

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live..

Blame is safer than praise.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies..

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself….

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself….

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic..

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and th….

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation..

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the persona….

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also..

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts..

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense..