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 sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

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

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.