War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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