All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.