"The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without."

"As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe. My friends have come to me unsought.... Will these, too, seperate themselves from me again, or some of them? I know not, but I fear it not; for my relation to them is so pure, that we hold by simple affinity, and the Genius of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women, wherever I may be."

"A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

"Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not."

"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."

"If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him."

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

"Whatever limits us we call Fate."

"I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life."

"I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things."

"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."

"Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age."

"Tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world."

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

"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?"

"Poet. To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds."

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?"

"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle."

"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon, it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged."

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."

"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both."

"We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today."

"Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise."

"Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold."

"We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?"

"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil."

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

"There is a crack in everything God has made."

"The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it."

"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."

"We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature."

"A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point."

"As soon as there is life there is danger."

"Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions."

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."

"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

"He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that."

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

"There is always safety in valor."