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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

Speech is great; but silence is greater.

Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

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.

Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

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.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.