In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

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

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

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.