The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

Truth is the summit of being.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.