It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

The debt is paid,
The verdict said,
The Furies laid,
The plague is stayed.
All fortunes made;
Turn the key and bolt the door,
Sweet is death forevermore.
Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,
Nor murdering hate, can enter in.
All is now secure and fast;
Not the gods can shake the Past
Flies-to the adamantine door
Bolted down forevermore.
None can reenter there,
No thief so politic,
No Satan with a royal trick
Steal in by window, chink, or hole,
To bind or unbind, add what lacked,
Insert a leaf, or forge a name,
New-face or finish what is packed,
Alter or mend eternal Fact.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

A man is related to all nature.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

A day is a miniature eternity

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Concentration is the secret of strength.

Men are what their mothers made them.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

The first wealth is health.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands;Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

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

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Patience and fortitude conquers all things.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.