“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.”
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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
