An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.