“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“if we shall take the good we find,asking no questions,we shall have heaping measures.”

“We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.”

“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”

“Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.”