The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.