There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.