What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.