A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.