“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.”

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.”

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.”

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”