Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
From Thomas Carlyle
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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