The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

Souls are not saved in bundles.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Humility is the secret of the wise.