It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

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

When there is no vision, people perish.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.