The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle