“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

“Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.”

“Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.”