In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.