As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.