Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.