Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

In good writing, words become one with things.

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."