"Preaching is the expression of the moral..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?”

“He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.”

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”

“A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.”

“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

“Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.”

“It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.”

“Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.”

“The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.”