All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear..

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great c….

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists o….

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again..

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on eart….

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you sta….

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets ….

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is t….

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes..

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has….

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats ….

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but th….

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friends….

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay..

Earth endures; Stars abide..

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the m….

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world..

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself..

What potent blood hath modest May..

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him ….

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard..