The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Men are better than their theology.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Look sharply after your thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds may lie between you and its return.

Our best thoughts come from others.

So far as a man thinks, he is free.