Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.