Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

All promise outruns performance.

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.