There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Friendship buys friendship.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.