“Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves
“Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers
“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process
“Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life
“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools