But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.