We judge of man's wisdom by his hope..

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism..

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effo….

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful..

Commonsense is the wick of the candle..

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best..

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money..

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma..

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time..

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports..

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams..

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years..

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first..

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers..

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself..

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power..

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions..

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies ….

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power..