I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. 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. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.