He that has done nothing has known nothing.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

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