Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

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