For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

A man's perfection is his work.