The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.