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

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.