Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.