Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part of dupes.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.