You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful