Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.