Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.