What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

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