The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Thought will not work except in silence.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.