The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will