Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.