If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.