The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.