Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

I find no intellect comparable to my own

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.