Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.