It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.