A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.