But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.