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.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.