A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.