Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.