We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.