How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.