The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.