Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.