"A man must keep an eye on..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.”

“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.”

“The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.”

“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

“If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.”

“A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.”

“I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!”

“The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.”

“To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.”