The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.