The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The soul circumscribes all things.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.