The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.