As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Society has no bribe for me.

Do your work, but do your thing.

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.