Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
Do the thing and you will have the power.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Books are for nothing but to inspire.
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
A man is known by the books he reads.