The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

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

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

A man perfects himself by working.

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.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.