Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break..

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life..

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare ….

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods..

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk ….

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man..

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone..

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes..

Nature provides exceptions to every rule..

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own..

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be s….

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three..

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast..

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul..

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church..

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual..

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life..

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work..

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own st….

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music..