Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart’s desire.
Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.
Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it’s in everyone’s heart.
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
The hero is he who is immovably centered.
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
If I am the devil’s child, I will live then, by the devil.
I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.