Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

A man's perfection is his work.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Worship is transcendent wonder.