Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Thought will not work except in silence.

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

The end of man is action.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?