The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Travel is a fools paradise.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.