Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?