Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.