Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.