I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Genius Borrows nobly.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.