“Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!”

“(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.”

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”

“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”

“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”

“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”

“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”

“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”

“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.”

“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”

“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”