The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.