The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.