The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

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.

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.