The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

A man's perfection is his work.