At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Character teaches above our wills.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.