We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.