But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

I honor health as the first Muse.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.