God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.