No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.
The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
Violence does even justice unjustly.
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.