The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
The whole past is the procession of the present.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.