Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?

Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.