In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.