The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.