Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.