In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

Read much, but not many works.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

Consummated science is positively humble.

Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the main road to go to God, the rest are the ‘by-ways’.

When you love someone who hates you, that is the practice of divine love.

A friend cannot be ownedThat is plain to seeFriendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.