The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream..

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the ….

The poor are only they who feel poor..

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality..

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by pr….

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth..

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

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

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination..

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit..

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals..

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes..

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism..

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes ….

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment..

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask..

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least….

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good..

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair..

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer..

Isolation must precede true society..