We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.