Work only can keep even kings respectable.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.