Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Make youself necessary to someone.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.