The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.