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

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.