The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.