Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.