But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.