In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

All men desire to be immortal.

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.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.