People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Do what you know and perception is converted into character. Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. We are always getting ready to live but never living. Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.