In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.