There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.