I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?