If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

Why look in the dark for light?