All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

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.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.