Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

All men desire to be immortal.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.