Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.