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.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

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