Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

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.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.