It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.