“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

“Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

“Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”

“When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”