Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.