One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.