Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

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.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.