The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.