When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.