In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.