If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.