though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Build therefore your own world.

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.