Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.