Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

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

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.