Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.