Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.