God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works.