The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.