It is a luxury to be understood.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.