Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar’s hand, and Plato’s brain, Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakespeare’s strain.
A friend may be nature’s most magnificent creation.
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.
The student is to read history actively not passively.
Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
I unsettle all things.
Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Standing on the bare ground, – my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, – all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Keep your friendships in repair.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
The never-ending task of self improvement.
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.