Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.