Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.