Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.