Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.