Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

A man lives by believing something.

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.