“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.”

“So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages... In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried”

“O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!”

“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.”

“The only true gift is a portion of thyself.”