All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

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

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.