Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.