Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.