Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.