Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.