Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
Produce great Persons, the rest follows.
Peace is always beautiful.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of the people.
Of the terrible doubt of appearances, of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded.
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Love, that is day and night – love, that is sun and moon and stars, love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
