Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.