Sublime

“History never repeats itself; man always does.” It

the truth that, while it is very rare indeed in the world to find a thoroughly good man, it is rarer still, rare to the point of monstrosity, to find a man who does not either desire to be one, or imagine that he is one already.

Men are very much too ready to speak of men’s work being ordinary, when we consider that, properly considered, every man is extraordinary.

It is precisely those who have been conservative about the family who have been revolutionary about the state.

Men merely finding themselves free found themselves free to dispute the value of freedom.

The most important man on earth is the perfect man who is not there.

He who is only a traveller learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end.

“Nothing in life is of any value except the attempt to be virtuous,”