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

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.