The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.

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

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.