The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.