The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

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

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.