Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.