“for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men”

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Failure is the test of greatness.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.