Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.