Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.