Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.