The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.