Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.