The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...