Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

The energy from the crowd is what fuels our performances.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.