Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.