Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

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

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.