Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.