Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.