Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it. Could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he pretends to be! Long afterwards, I find that quality elsewhere which he promised me.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.