The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

History is only a value of relation.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.