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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or t...more

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of a...more

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendsh...more

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, ...more

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

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The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is...more

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the ci...more

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.