The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

I never expect a soldier to think.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.