We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.