I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?

Our moods do not believe in each other.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.