Insist upon yourself. Be original.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.