Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;-and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not be absent from the chamber which thou sittest.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?