The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.