What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.