A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.