A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.