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.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.