Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.