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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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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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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...more

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

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Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of pr...more

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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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.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!