The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.