Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.