“Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.”
“Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.”
“I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.”
“A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.”
“Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.”
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
“Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.”
“There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.”
“One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.”
“The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
“The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.”
“It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.”
“A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.”
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
“The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.”
“The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.”
“Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.”
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
“The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
“If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?”
“I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.”
“Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.”
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
“No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.”
“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.”
“If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.”