A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows