We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.