The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.