I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

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

There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.