1. “Endurance is patience concentrated.”
2. “I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
3. “It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.”
4. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
5. Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world”.”
6. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.”
7. “A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
8. “The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
9. “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
10. “Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
11. “The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
12. “A person usually has two good reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.”
13. “A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”
14. “Silence is more eloquent than words.”
15. “A good book is the purest essence of the human soul.”
16. “The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
17. “For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.”
18. “Fame is no sure test of merit.”
19. “History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
20. “The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
21. “Literature is the thought of thinking souls.”
22. “The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”
23. “Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.”
24. “Every noble work at first is impossible.”
25. “The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
26. “Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
27. “The greatest of all faults… is to be conscious of none.”
28. “Men do less than they ought, unless they do al they can.”
29. “Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.”
30. “In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.”
