No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.