A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

I stand in awe of my body.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.