“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
Courage“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
Teacher“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
Courage“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”
Good“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
God“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“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
Great“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.”
Great“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
War“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
Happiness“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
Great“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”
Imagination“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
Great“Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
Science“Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
Good“History, a distillation of rumour.”
History“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
Great“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
Good“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
Great“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”
Science“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.”
Men“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
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