"A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes."

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

"Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal."

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

"Be not a slave of words."

"He that can work is a born king of something."

"Every noble work is at first impossible."

"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."

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

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

"No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men."

"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 lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."

"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."

"Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time."

"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."

"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."

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

"There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!"

"Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light."

"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."

"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."

"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 tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss."

"Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream."

"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."

"Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all."

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

"Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns."

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

"Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind."

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