Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Love is the essence of God.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

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.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?