Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.