The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.