If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.