It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.