Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

Flowers are the earth laughing.