Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.