As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.