Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

There is a crack in everything God has made