Your work should be in praise of what you love.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.