| Quotes |
Topic |
| Humor | Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. |
| Humor | Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. |
| Influence | The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. |
| Influence | Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well, for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. |
| Intellect | For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle, |
| Intellect | We should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. |
| Journalism | A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. |
| Journalism | Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? |
| Journalism | Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament, but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. |
| Journalism | A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. |
| Judgment | Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment. |
| Knowledge | What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History, of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials? |
| Knowledge | For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light. |
| Labor | And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. |
| Labor | Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. |
| Language | The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. |
| Laughter | How much lies in Laughter, the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. |
| Laughter | no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. |
| Laughter | A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. |
| Life | The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. |
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