The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. |
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. |
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them |
The religions we call false were once true |
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. |
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. |
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent / for every effect a perfect cause / and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. |
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.'' |
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. |
The secret of drunkeness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. |
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. |
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. |
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. |