Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.