Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.