We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

I am a part and parcel of God.