You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.