Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.