Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

God hides things by putting them near us.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!