My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

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.

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.