Necessity does everything well.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.