The world is all outside, it has no inside.

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.