The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.