A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.