No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way, by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis- able.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Men worship the shows of great men; thd most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

In the long-run every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.