Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.