It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.