Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Necessity does everything well.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .