"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor"
"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith"
"Endurance is patience concentrated"
"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone"
"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer"
"Clever men are good, but they are not the best"
"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"
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion"
"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better"
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are"
"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"
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak"
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence"
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil"
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"
"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent"
"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite"
"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest"
"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist"
"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether"
"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"
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"
"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO"
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die"
"No violent extreme endures"
"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown"
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything"
"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad"
"Be not a slave of words"
"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope"
"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun"
"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is"
"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"
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one"
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with"
"A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner"
"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy"
"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze"
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle"
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself"
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts"
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together"
"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none"
"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world"
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can"
"Let each become all that he was created capable of being"
"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else"
"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am"
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries"
"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"
