A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.