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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. -Thomas Carlyle.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

History, a distillation of rumor.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.