For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride? And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you. And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering? And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.

All you have shall someday be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors’.

If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons?

that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

the corner-stone of the temple is not higher than the lowest stone in its foundation.

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, — then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.” And since you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.