For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.