The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.