Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

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