Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.