We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

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

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

Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.