Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

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?

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.