Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.