The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
Thomas Carlyle Quotes
But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said… Their constitution, such as it may be, was made here, not there… Cease to brag to me of America, an its model institutions and constitutions.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.
Biography is the only true history.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path – a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do – to find his path and walk in it.
Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas, bricks and mortar are mortar and […]
