My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

New arts destroy the old.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.