Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.