If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.