The highest virtue is always against the law.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

It's a luxury to be understood.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.