The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.