There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

All life is an experiment.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.