The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

I want to meet my God awake.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.