With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.