The height charms us, the steps to it do not; with the summit in our eye, we love to walk along the plain. Goethe.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in. La Roche.
The heights by great men reached and kept / 25 Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. Longfellow.
The hell of these days is the infinite terror of Not getting on, especially of Not making money. Carlyle.
The hen of our neighbour appears to us as a goose. Eastern Pr.
The herd of people dread sound understanding more than anything; they ought to dread stupidity, if they knew what was really dreadful. Understanding is unpleasant, they must have it pushed aside; stupidity is but pernicious, they can let it stay. Goethe.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. Johnson.
The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first 30 times, still feels and sees in us of the latest. Carlyle.
The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions. Not traceable.
The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. Carlyle.