Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.