The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

The hero is suffered to be himself.