Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.