In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.