The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.