Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.