A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

History is the distillation of rumour.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.