All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.