We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for bet…

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the conn…

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.…

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.…

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well - but 'tis not true!