What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

All the world loves a lover.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.