If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.