The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.