The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.