So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.