The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

Concentration is the secret of srength.