He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

A day is a miniature eternity.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.