All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.