Isolation must precede true society.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.