A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.