I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.