Teacher

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Not put the foundations under them.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.