I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.