What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.