By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.