It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — “always do what you are afraid to do”

Our distrust is very expensive.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world

If a man own land, the land owns him.

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. […] It speaks the truth, and it is just, generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations, and scornful of being scorned.

On Henry David Thoreau: He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. 

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. 

Truth is our element.

Sprinkle joy.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

What you are comes to you.

The years teach much which the days never know. 

The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.