Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

Blame is safer than praise

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.