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.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

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