Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.