Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.