But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.