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.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Be not a slave of words.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.