Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

A man's perfection is his work.

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!