What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.

Build therefore your own world.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.