Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

Renew thyself completely each day.

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.