Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.