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

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.