Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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.
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.