Belief In Oneself Is One

The Great Difficulty In Education Is That We Give Rules Instead Of Inspiring Sentiments. ... It Is Not Possible To Make Rules Enough To Apply To All Manner Of Cases; And If It Were Possible, A Child Would Soon Forget Them. But If You Inspire Him With Right Feelings, They Will Govern His Actions.

[u]sefulness Is Happiness, And... All Other Things Are But Incidental.

Flowers Have Spoken To Me More Than I Can Tell In Written Words. They Are The Hieroglyphics Of Angels, Loved By All Men For The Beauty Of Their Character, Though Few Can Decipher Even Fragments Of Their Meaning.

That Man's Best Works Should Be Such Bungling Imitations Of Nature's Infinite Perfection, Matters Not Much; But That He Should Make Himself An Imitation, This Is The Fact Which Nature Moans Over, And Deprecates Beseechingly. Be Spontaneous, Be Truthful, Be Free, And Thus Be Individuals! Is The Song She Sings Through Warbling Birds, And Whispering Pines, And Roaring Waves, And Screeching Winds.

The Laws Of Our Being Are Such That We Must Perform Some Degree Of Use In The World, Whether We Intend It, Or Not; But We Can Deprive Ourselves Of Its Indwelling Joy, By Acting Entirely From The Love Of Self.