Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.