"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."