What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

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

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.