Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.