Keep your friendships in repair.

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

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.