The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.