This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.