Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.