Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins