If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

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

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a hindrance. However flattering order and expediency may look, it is but the repose of a lethargy, and we will choose rather to be awake, though it be stormy, and maintain ourselves on this earth, and in this life, as we may, without signing our death-warrant. Let us see if we cannot stay here, where He has put us, on his own conditions. Does not his law reach as far as his light? The expedients of the nations clash with one another: only the absolutely right is expedient for all.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.