I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.