Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!