The present moment is a powerful goddess.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.