Men should watch for them and lay out the life-course by them, as captains ignore the clouds and headlands and steer by the stars for a long voyage and a distant harbor.
INFLUENCE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF REACTION IN LIFE AND CHARACTER.
"So each man gets out of the world of men the rebound, the increase and development of what he brings there.

Three men stand in the same field and look around them, and then they all cry out together.

One of them exclaims, 'How rich!' another cries, 'How strange!' another cries, 'How beautiful!' And then the three divide the field between them, and they build their houses there, and in a year you come back and see what answer the same earth has made to each of her three questioners.

They have all talked with the ground on which they lived, and heard its answers.

They have all held out their several hands, and the same ground has put its own gift into each of them.