I find myself ... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of ...many for the gain of a few.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his friends or his towns-people or his contemporaries, but by a...ll men, and which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself, and be a man of no party and no manner and no age, but one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs. He must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak, or an angel of the Lord to act; that is, he is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts, but he is to be an organ through which the universal mind acts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He... greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit t...o be a much better thing than experience, which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and defective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »