Genius is its own end.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

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

Accept your genius and say what you think.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

Postpone not your life.