Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.