The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.