Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.