Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

He that has done nothing has known nothing.