Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.