Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.