“He that can work is born to be king of something.”
“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”
“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.”
“The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.”
“Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.”
“The heart always sees before than the head can see.”
“The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.”
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
“The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.”
“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
“Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.”
“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”
“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
“Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.”
“No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.”
“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
“The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.”
“If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.”
“The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.”
“Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
“Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.”
“Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.”
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
“The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.”
“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
“What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.”
“The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.”
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”