Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.