“Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.”
“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.”
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.”
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.”
“He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.”
“A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.”
“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”
“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.”
“Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.”
“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”
“Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.”
“If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.”
“Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.”
“No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.”
“Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.”
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
“The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.”
“The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.”
“Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.”
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
“Weed -- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.”
“The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.”
“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”