The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

A man perfects himself by working.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.