The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.