When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.