A man is a god in ruins.
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- Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine
- Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
- A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.
- The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.