A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

He that can work is born to be king of something.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.