The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The soul knows no persons.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.