Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.