All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Every past is worth condemning.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.