The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.