But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.