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True men and women are all physicians to make us well. - [Humanity] We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream. - [Eloquence] We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition. - [Money] What pains and tears the slightest steps of man's progress have cost! Every hair-breadth forward has been in the agony of some soul, and humanity has reached blessing after blessing of all its vast achievement of good with bleeding feet. - [Progress] As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too. - Radical Problems--Individualism [Genius] Are the tools without, which the carpenter put forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself; and would he not smile at the notion that chest or house is more than he? - The Rising Faith--Personality [Carpentry] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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