Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.