Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.