The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.