Action has magic, grace and power in it.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

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.

I will be lord over myself.