Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

No day is without its innocent hope.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

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