I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.