Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Where there is no vision a people perish.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.