All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.