Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet