Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?