Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of move timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Let us be wise, and not impede the soul.
Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself.
It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
It is astonishing what force, purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
I myself am more divine than any I see —
