“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
Humor“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.”
Death“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.”
Hope“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
Good“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
Age“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”
Hope“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”
Great“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
Work“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
Courage“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.”
Good“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
Hope“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
Alone“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Great“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”
Time“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
Music“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
Alone“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
Work“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.”
Great“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Business“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
Great“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
Men