No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.