Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

You cannot see the mountain near.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.