The badge of honesty is simplicity.
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.