There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.