No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

Build therefore your own world.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.