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

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.