Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.