Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.