We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.