Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.