The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.