Men are what their mothers made them.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.