I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.