“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

“The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet, time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.”

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”

“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.”

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”