The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.