I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.