“Man is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.”

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.”

“[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.”

“In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.”

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”