What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Find the journey's end in every step.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.