Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.