The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

The soul knows no persons.

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.