Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

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

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.