A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

It's a luxury to be understood.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.