No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.