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

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.