Talent should minister to genius.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
No work begun shall ever pause for death.
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
Death: the grand perhaps.
Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.