The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. 1842

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.

Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Children are all foreigners.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. 1836

I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.