A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.