Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed