He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.