I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.