We wake from one dream into another dream..

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out ….

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore sup….

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes..

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudd….

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the….

Nature turns all malfaisance to good..

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors..

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, ….

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics..

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed..

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public..

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them..

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now..

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance..

We go to Europe to be Americanized..

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear..

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither ….

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt..

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic..

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same..