God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

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. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?