Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.