There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Do your work, but do your thing.

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.