Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.
Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
The “times,” “the age” what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Don’t make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.