The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

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

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.