Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.