Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief