“I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths, and skies and seas around. —”

“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not likethe azure ether beyond.”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state...”

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.”