Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

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

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.