Accept your genius and say what you think.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."