A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.