[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.