The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.