Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Travel is a fools paradise.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.