There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

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.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.