An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

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

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.