Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.