A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.