Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.