All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.
A man lives by believing something.
The genuine essence of truth never dies.
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
All true work is sacred.
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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