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.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.