All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Character is a perfectly educated will.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.