“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven”

“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”

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

“To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”

“The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision”

“But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”