Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.