Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.