"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."

"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."

"Be not a slave of words."

"Every noble work is at first impossible."

"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."

"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."

"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."

"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite."

"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."

"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."

"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."

"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy."

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."

"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it."

"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."

"Work alone is noble."

"A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner."

"The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart."

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."

"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."

"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."

"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"

"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."

"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."

"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."

"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."

"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."

"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope."

"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."

"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."

"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."

"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."