Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.