Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.