Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.