As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.