What potent blood hath modest May.

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

There is one mind common to all individual men

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

America is another name for opportunity.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.