A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.