Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.