We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Character teaches above our wills.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.