Work on one thing at a time until finished.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.