Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.