Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.