The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.