Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.