English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.