Be an opener of doors

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.