The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.