A noble book! all men's book!
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.