There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.