We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

Postpone not your life.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

a good reader makes a good book

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

The world is his who can see through its pretension.