Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.