Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.