“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”

“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.”

“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.”

“Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.”