“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong”

“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.”

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.”

“The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.”