The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.