Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.