Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.