We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.