QUOTES
To
apprehend a miracle, a man must first have wrought it. He knows only what he has
lived, and interprets all facts in the light of his experience. Miracles are spiritual
experiences, not feats of legerdemain, not freaks of nature. It is the spiritual
sight that discerns whatsoever is painted to sense. Flesh is faithless and blind.
Solitude
is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul;
Every
synthetic fact is supernatural and miraculous. Analysis by detecting its law resolves
it into science, and renders it a fact of the understanding. Divinely seen, natural
facts are symbols of spiritual laws. Miracles are of the heart; not of the head:
indigenous to the soul; not freaks of nature, not growths of history.
Action
translates death into life; fable into verity; speculation into experience; freeing
man from the sorceries of tradition and the torpor of habit.
Character
is the only legitimate institution; the only regal influence. Its power is infinite.
...nature
is not separate from me; she is mine alike with my body; and in moments of true
life, I feel my identity with her; I breathe, pulsate, feel, think, will, through
her members, and know of no duality of being.
Love
designs, thought sketches, action sculptures the works of spirit. Love is divine,
conceiving, creating, completing, all things. Love is the Genius of Spirit.
The
trump of reform is sounding throughout the world for a revolution of all human
affairs.
The
true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
“That is a good book
which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”
“The less routine
the more life.”
“Success
is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
“Thought
means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense.
Thinking makes the man.”
“Many
can argue; not many converse”
“Strengthen
me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
“Observation
more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.”
Our
ideals are our better selves.”
“While
one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what
his years may be.”
Our
friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and
truly.”
