The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Character teaches above our wills.