Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.