It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.