The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.