The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the sou….

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming….

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine..

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise….

We walk alone in the world..

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, wit….

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched..

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals..

The faith that stands on authority is not faith..

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other da….

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment..

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of….

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; a….

The beautiful is never plentiful..

God hid the whole world in thy heart..

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles..

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature..

Morality is the object of government..

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and anoth….

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a….