The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.