Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.