“The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.”
“One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.”
“Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.”
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
“Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.”
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
“The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.”
“Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.”
“The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
“For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.”
“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”
“The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.”
“In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.”
“The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.”
“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.”
“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.”
“The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.”
“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”
“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”
“All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.”
“The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
“Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.”
“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
“The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
“A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.”
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”