As soon as there is life there is danger.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.