The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.