The pest of society is egotists.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

Coal is a portable climate.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

People only see what they are prepared to see.