All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.