A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.