That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

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.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.