One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Popularity is for dolls.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.