Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.