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So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.

All comes out even at the end of the day.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."

This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.