James Freeman Clarke

1810–1888 · American Unitarian minister, theologian and author

James Freeman Clarke was a Boston Unitarian minister, abolitionist and prolific author who founded the Church of the Disciples and moved in the Transcendentalist circle around Margaret Fuller. His books — Ten Great Religions (1871), Self-Culture (1880), Every-Day Religion (1886) — were written for ordinary readers, and his recurring theme was that ordinary duties carry moral weight, which is exactly the ground this maxim stands on. He died in 1888, when Napoleon Hill was still a small child.

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“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”

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