Fear always springs from ignorance.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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