The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

Find the journey's end in every step.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.