Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.