The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

The heart is forever inexperienced.