A Man Is What He Thinks About

Talent May Frolic And Juggle; Genius Realizes And Adds.

The Other Terror That Scares Us From Self-trust Is Our Consistency; A Reverence For Our Past Act Or Word, Because The Eyes Of Others Have No Other Data For Computing Our Orbit Than Our Past Acts, And We Are Loath To Disappoint Them.

Manners Have Been Somewhat Cynically Defined To Be A Contrivance Of Wise Men To Keep Fools At A Distance. Fashion Is Shrewd To Detect Those Who Do Not Belong To Her Train, And Seldom Wastes Her Attentions. Society Is Very Swift In Its Instincts, And If You Do Not Belong To It, Resists And Sneers At You, Or Quietly Drops You.

The Imaginative Faculty Of The Soul Must Be Fed With Objects Immense And Eternal.

Inaction Is Cowardice, But There Can Be No Scholar Without The Heroic Mind.