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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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