Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.