Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.