Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.