Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

evergreen philosophy of Idealism, springing up on American soil.

Instead of trying to create a new religion from scratch, aim to breathe new life into the forms that already exist. If you are alive, you'll enliven all you touch. To revive faith from dead tradition, three things are needed: soul, soul, and more soul.

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

I hate quotes: tell me what you know.

When an artist runs out of inspiration or a scholar wearies of books, they always have the ability to live. Character is more important than intellect. Life is primary; our thoughts about it are secondary.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.