A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
All religious expression is symbolism.
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
It is the force of the people that sustains all these despotisms, the basest as well as the best.
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books.
Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
The unknown is an ocean, of which conscience is the compass. Thought, meditation, prayer, are the great mysterious pointings of the needle.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
Work only can keep even kings respectable.
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