We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.