The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
Calmness is always godlike.
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.