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

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Thought is the seed of action.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.