If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
The great soul of this world is just.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
Rest is for the dead.
Violence does even justice unjustly.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
Laughter means sympathy.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Be not a slave of words.
It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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