He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.