“Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.”

On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge (1866) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/thx1410.txt
1860s
Context: The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. And it cannot be otherwise, for every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority, the cherishing of the keenest scepticism, the annihilation of the spirit of blind faith; and the most ardent votary of science holds his firmest convictions, not because the men he most venerates hold them; not because their verity is testified by portents and wonders; but because his experience teaches him that whenever he chooses to bring these convictions into contact with their primary source, Nature — whenever he thinks fit to test them by appealing to experiment and to observation — Nature will confirm them. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Source: Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 146.

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

In Memory Yet Green (1979), p. 420
General sources

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 553.

1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

Nahj al-Balagha

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 476.