Sublime

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

They should endeavor, too, by means of their counsel and practical wisdom to be of as much service as possible to their friends and to the young, and above all to the state.

You have mastered the art of living not for yourself alone, but for others, and this concern has stamped thee above all, as a man among men.

Now of all the great writers of the world, Goethe is admittedly the greatest teacher. He is essentially and frankly didactic; and nowhere is there so large and worthy a body of literature from a single pen which is informed with so high and so serious a purpose.

But man is not only governed by what he thinks but by what he chooses to think about;

“As the tree falleth, so shall it lie,”

that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.

and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

This is the only final greatness of a man; that he does for all the world what all the world cannot do for itself. Dickens, I believe, did it.