Representative Men: Seven Lectures

It is natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would…

Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar’s fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, “Burn the libraries; for, their…

The publication, in Mr. Bohn’s “Serial Library,” of the excellent translations of Plato, which we esteem one of the chief benefits the…

Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers: they have nothing in their…

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two…

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent, than by originality. If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a…

Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known, and the most powerful; and owes his predominance to…

I find a provision, in the constitution of the world, for the writer or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of…