I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.